Author

Giulia Cimini

Giulia Cimini is a Teaching Assistant of Political Science at L’Orientale University of Naples and a Gerda Henkel researcher. She holds a PhD in International Studies, and specialized on Middle Eastern Studies and Arabic Language. Giulia has been awarded a 2019 POMEPS TRE Grant for her research on marginalized communities and the challenges of decentralization in Tunisia. She is Book Reviews Editor for Interdisciplinary Political Studies, a peer-reviewed, Open Access, online journal publishing in the fields of Comparative Politics and International Relations.

On July 25, the day Tunisia celebrated the 62nd anniversary of the Republic, the country’s first freely democratically elected president, Beji Caid Essebsi, passed away at the age of 92. In view of presidential and parliamentary elections…